Lifted Tree-Reweighted Variational Inference

no code implementations • 17 Jun 2014 • Hung Hai Bui, Tuyen N. Huynh, David Sontag

We first show that for these graphical models, the tree-reweighted variational objective lends itself to a compact lifted formulation which can be solved much more efficiently than the standard TRW formulation for the ground graphical model.

Variational Inference